Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Dan Ports
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:10:14PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > For most ports that depend on a TeX port, the dependencies are written in > bin: style instead of port: style specifically so that you could edit > macports.conf and add MacTeX's path to your binpath setting to avoid having > MacPor

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Murray Eisenberg
On 5/29/12 3:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: On 5/29/12 1:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Completely off-topic and it doesn't answer your question, but asymptote is already part of MacTeX. Is anything wrong with that one (maybe it doesn't have

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > On 5/29/12 1:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Completely off-topic and it doesn't answer your question, but >> asymptote is already part of MacTeX. Is anything wrong with that one >> (maybe it doesn't have enough "sugars" / library depend

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> Thanks for your helpful reply. But I don't know how to get ahold of the > PortFile to edit it. When I execute "sudo port install asymptote", doesn't > that download the PortFile and automatically start the process? Selfupdate (or sync) are when the portfiles are retrieved. Running "sudo port

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Murray Eisenberg
On 5/29/12 1:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: Reason for question: Given that I already had texlive installed (but not through MacPorts), I tried installing the asymptote binary obtained directly from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/. But wh

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Murray Eisenberg
On 5/29/12 1:39 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Question: Can I install the asymptote port without having the automatic installation of its dependency texlive? You will have to manually edit the asymptote portfile to have it find your non-macports TeX installation: sudo port edit asymptote This w

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 29, 2012, at 12:25, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Question: Can I install the asymptote port without having the automatic > installation of its dependency texlive? > > I already have the complete texlive installed directly, without MacPorts, > using the MacTeX distribution. I want to keep t

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > Reason for question: Given that I already had texlive installed (but not > through MacPorts), I tried installing the asymptote binary obtained directly > from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/. But when I run the xasy command, I > get a p

Re: Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> Question: Can I install the asymptote port without having the automatic > installation of its dependency texlive? You will have to manually edit the asymptote portfile to have it find your non-macports TeX installation: sudo port edit asymptote This will entail removing or changing the depend

Installing asymptote

2012-05-29 Thread Murray Eisenberg
Question: Can I install the asymptote port without having the automatic installation of its dependency texlive? I already have the complete texlive installed directly, without MacPorts, using the MacTeX distribution. I want to keep the latter, and I certainly don't want to have yet another tex

Using Macports to distribute custom software?

2012-05-29 Thread Tomáš Znamenáček
Hello! We have some in-house tools I’d like to distribute to our machines. It seems to me like a good idea to use Macports for this, ie. create a custom package with our tools, upload it on our server and add the server into sources.conf. The Macports support is nearly there, at least the suppo